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Blow the Candle out and Fear Not. Your Shadow is there to Embrace you. For it is the one who truly knows you.
LATEST NEWS: Available Titles coming soon to Sony and B&N eBook stores. Cheryl Anne Gardner is a writer of dark, often disturbing literary novellas. She is an advocate for independent film, music, and books, and when at all possible prefers to read and review out-of-the-mainstream indie published works, foreign translations, and a bit of philosophy. Her love of literature began at an early age with Bram Stoker's Dracula. Captivated by the Gothic and Dark Romantic stylings of Poe, Lovecraft, Kafka, and de Sade, her passion for the macabre manifests itself throughout her own work to this day. She lives with her husband and ferrets on the east coast USA, is an enthusiastic gardener, and her weekly blog column titled "Thoughts on The Craft" can be found at The Pod People Indie Book Review and Commentary site: PodPeep.Blogspot where she is a contributing editor, reviewer, and columnist. |
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Twisted Knickers is a publication consulting imprint owned and operated by the author, her husband, and their seven ferrets, who have been known on occasion to offer their critical literary opinion. We are not a press. To Contact the Author Email C/O TwistedKnickers.Publications at Yahoo dot com |
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The Kissing Room |
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Merle tells us her tale of love, longing, and desperation. As she struggles with the guilt over her husband's suicide, Merle's gut wrenching quest for redemption takes her on a downward spiral into a hell of her own making. Resigned to a life of self-mutilation, abuse, and despair, will she find hope in a mysterious stranger, or will she die, entangled in a sadistic relationship with her husband's best friend. The Kissing Room is a story of death and renewal, of love lost, and of salvation found in the most unlikely of places. It is the story of two hearts united in cruelty and pain who have only to look to each other for hope. Available in Print, and eBook formats for Kindle, Sony, or Nook |
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The Thin Wall |
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Young, innocent college freshman Laleana O-Reilly, disenchanted with societal norms, decides that she needs a new philosophy. One dreary late night in the college library, she discovers the Marquis deSade and Julian. Through an unbridled act of passion, her innocence and naiveté were no more. The Thin Wall is a story of codependence, love, obsession, and the unadulterated surrender of one's body, mind, and soul. It’s a story of trust and friendship. Laleana’s struggle is one of faith, she teaches us that to accept and submit to one’s own nature is to receive bountiful pleasure, but to deny the need to be loved and accepted is to endure suffering beyond measure. Will Laleana have the strength to release herself from her bonds and find the love she seeks?
Available in Print, and eBook formats for Kindle, Sony, or Nook
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The Splendor of Antiquity |
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Blurring the boundaries between reality and fantasy, can faith and science unite to save two desolate hearts. Can love triumph over deceit, and can a man and a woman put history aside and rediscover just how deep their bond lies. Antiquity follows French Archeologists Joliette Deneauve and Olivier Botton as they grapple with the mystic implications of a discovery hidden deep within the Siberian mountains. As Joliette pursues her obsession, she becomes bewitched by the spirit of a long dead God-King, and torn with despair, her grip on reality is tested. As Joliette attempts to decipher the incantations of a strange burial rite, painful memories from her own past begin to overcome her, and her faith in Botton is tested. Will she learn to trust him again, trust in her own heart, or will they slip farther away from one another, into the abyss and beyond.
Available in Print, and eBook formats for Kindle, Sony, or Nook Twisted Knickers Publications (November 27, 2009) Paperback 134 pages ISBN-13: 978-0982214534 Copyright © 2007. |
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Logos |
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In all Chaos, there is a cosmos, in all disorder, a secret order. Now, imagine if the Horsemen were already among us, and imagine if the Fourth had a name. This is the journey of an immortal soul. It is the story of a lot that had been cast, a story of heartbreak, pain, and acceptance, and ultimately, it is a story of redemption through love. From war ravaged 9BC Germania to modern day London, it is the journey of three people, whose lives will be forever changed by faith and fate . . . This is her story; her name is Caline, and she is the sword in the Shadows.
Logos is out of Print. Second Edition Release Coming Soon |
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Sin Eater — Coming Soon |
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Rowan lives at the edge of reality. After witnessing a terrible childhood tragedy, her life evolves into a shifting state of death and decay. Barely a night without restlessness, barely a breath without torment, she exists at the edge, her mind merely a footfall away from the abyss. Within that abyss stirs a creature so viscous, so evil, staring back at her, waiting for her to fall.
Notes on Sin Eater by Cheryl Anne Gardner.
The words of Dante's Inferno have always struck me as one of the most profound pieces of literature of all time, but never have those words struck me so deeply as when I was writing The Sin-eater. |
